25 things

25 random things about me:

1. i am completely obsessed with coffee and am a different person when i haven't had any (just ask the youth!) i actually have to limit myself during the day or it would be all i would ever drink.

2. my favorite tv show growing up was "the young riders" which was about the pony express. jimmy was always my favorite guy, but i loved teaspoon and the kid. (does anyone even know what i'm talking about besides keri?)

3. i love scars... mine and others. i think the stories behind them are so interesting. i used to try to get scars when i was younger by messing with my cuts and scrapes.

4. i would eat mexican food for every meal if it was available to me... and i love putting tabasco on almost anything.

5. i LOVE to travel.. for mission trips and vacations. i've been a lot of places, but if i could choose one place to go next, it would be either greece or mongolia.

6. i took a trip to uganda, africa when i was 15 years old. while i as there i ate a large fried ant, snake skin soup and some very questionable gravy. we also were not able to shower for the entire month. I tried to clean up by rinsing my hair in a bucket of water.

7. i hate wearing socks, and try not to whenever possible... i think i passed that trait on to my son.

8. i love to cook, and would do it all day long if i could, BUT i HATE to bake and am horrible at it!

9. during a spring break impact trip my senior year of college, i was on a wave-runner with a friend when he crashed it into another friend at a very high speed. our group also crashed 2 boats on the same trip- we had to dish out a lot of money for repairs!

10. there is nothing in the world i want to do more than indoor skydiving! chris promised to take me one day and i am still holding out hope.

11. i can name all of the states in alphabetical order (yes, it's a song and i love to sing it to the youth at least once a year)

12. i always need chapstick

13. while in africa i was able to go to the source of the nile. it wasn't at all what i expected... it's so intense that if you were to fall in you would not survive

14. i love looking at people's feet. i don't really care to touch them (unless they belong to my children), but if you have them exposed, i will probably check to see what they look like.

15. chris and i talk about going back to alaska at least once every month- it was one of the most beautiful places i have ever been and i cannot wait to go back.

16. gene kelly is my favorite actor of all time. i know a lot of his movies by heart and did a report on him while in high school. my favs are "on the town", "anchors aweigh", and "take me out to the ballgame"

17. in high school, my sister and i would always use pet-names for each other when we played sports together.... "nag/mule", "L and K all the way", "rocky/colt" and "zip/zap" Anyone know what these are from?

18. i went scuba-diving in the caymans. when i 1st got in i didn't think i would be able to do it, when i was done i told chris it was the most amazing thing i have ever done and couldn't wait to do it again.

19. i love libraries.

20. the time in my life that i changed the most was the 4-years i was away at college. my life would have been much different if i would not have moved to springfield.

21. i love watching hockey.

22. i would have only had to take 1 more class at college to have a english minor. my reasons for not doing so were so lame and now regrettable.

23. i prefer to be cold than hot.. in ANY situation!

24. i love spending time with my kids and miss them terribly when they are not around, even though i know they are fine without me.

25. if i have Jesus and my family, i will always be ok... oh, and maybe a grande coffee.